CRC & TCC �Application Overview

Community Resilience Centers Round 2 

Transformative Climate Communities Round 6

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Agenda

1. TCC & CRC Program Overview
2. CRC Round 2
3. TCC Round 6
4. TCC & CRC Application Components

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Acronym Soup! 

• SGC: Strategic Growth Council
• TCC: Transformative Climate Communities Program
• CRC: Community Resilience Centers Program
• PG: Planning Grant
• PDG: Project Development Grant
• IG: Implementation Grant
• TA: Technical Assistance
• CGS: Collaborative Governance Structure

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TCC & CRC �Program Overview

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Programs Overview

Funds community-led development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in CA’s 

most disadvantaged communities.

Total Investments: $424 million in Rounds 1-5

Funds the planning, development, construction, and upgrades of community resilience centers, along with services and programs to improve local resilience holistically.

Total Investments: $97.5 million in Round 1

TCC

$98.4M Total R6 Funding Available

CRC

$55M Total R2 Funding Available

Eligible Applicants

Applicants must be based in California and can include the following:

• California Native American Tribe
• Tribally owned non-profit
• IRC 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Nonprofit organization
• Special District
• Joint powers authority
• Public or local publicly owned utility
• Mutual water company
• Public agency

Private shareholder corporations are ineligible as Lead Applicants and Co-Applicants/Partners.

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Please review each program's final guidelines for details.

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California Native American Tribes and Tribal Applicants

Federally and non-federally recognized California Native American Tribes and Triablly-owned nonprofits are eligible to apply as Lead Applicants or Co-Applicnats/Partners and are encouraged to participate.

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CRC and TCC intend to award at least one grant of each grant type to eligible Tribal applicants.�

Tribal Modifications & Special Considerations

• Automatic flexibility for certain requirements
• Can request modifications for additional specified requirements
• Lead Applicant must be a Tribe or Tribally-owned nonprofit

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Please review each program's final guidelines for details.

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Collaborative Governance Structure

Lead and Co-Applicants / Partners collaborate with residents, leaders, and community-based organizations.

At a minimum, the Collaborative Governance Structure must include:

• Lead Grantee
• Partners
• Community Residents 

Tribal applicants may be exempt from the requirement to include Co-Applicants / Partners.

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CRC Round 2

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CRC Round 2 Program Objectives

1. Funds the planning, construction, and retrofit of community resilience centers across California’s diverse communities.
2. Advance local communities’ capacity to respond to and recover from emergencies as they build long-term resilience.
3. Encourage meaningful engagement, cross-sectoral collaboration, community-based partnerships, and shared governance and decision-making models.
4. Mitigate the public health impacts of extreme heat and other emergencies exacerbated by climate change.
5. Prioritize projects located in and benefiting under-resourced, rural, unincorporated, and Tribal communities across geographically diverse regions in California.

See the CRC Round 2 Guidelines, Section 1: Program Overview for details.

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CRC Program Grant Types

Planning Grant

• Funds communities in the initial stages of CRC project development and prepares grantees for future funding to build or renovate resilience centers.
• Two-year grant term, up to $500,000

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Implementation Grant 

• Funds new construction and retrofits of facilities to serve as Community Resilience Centers, as well as programs and services that build overall community resilience.
• Up to 6-year grant term, up to $10 million

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See the CRC Round 2 Guidelines, Section 1: Program Overview for details.

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CRC Planning Grants     – Eligible Activities

Eligible Activities:

• Preparing applicants for future funding
• Identify and prepare potential project sites
• Build capacity with staff, partners, and/or shared governance structure
• Complete a fiscal analysis for development, construction, and maintenance costs
• Update local planning policies, codes, and plans
• Design and conduct community engagement

Planning Grants are for applicants exploring ideas and potential for local resilience centers

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See the CRC Round 2 Guidelines Section 4.2 Eligible Planning Grant Activities for details.

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CRC Implementation Grants      - Eligible Activities

Eligible Activities:

• Creating or expanding services and programs that build community resilience at the CRC Facility and Partner Sites
• Construction, retrofits, or other capital improvement of the CRC Facility, Campus Amenities, and Partner Sites
• Grant administration activities such as planning, grant management, reporting, and capacity building
• Data collection and evaluation

Implementation Grants are for applicants that are ready to start capital improvements for a CRC

See the CRC Round 2 Guidelines Section 5.2 Eligible Implementation Grant Activities for details.

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CRC Implementation Grants     – CRC Strategies

Each Implementation Grant application must include at least 4 of the CRC Strategies.

See the CRC Round 2 Guidelines Section 5.3 Implementation Grant Strategies for details.

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Redding Day Resource Center

CRC Round 1 Awarded Projects

Award Amount: $291,000​

Potential Community Day Center Sites - City of Redding Housing

The Center for Food, Youth & Community

Award Amount: $4,794,000

Center for Food, Youth & Community ribbon cutting ceremony

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CRC Round 2 Timeline

TCC Round 6

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TCC Program Overview

• Place-based approach in creating targeted investments & community empowerment
• Transformative Elements to ensure direct benefits to residents and long-term community revitalization
• Develops a shared community vision through partnerships formed in the Collaborative Governance Structure

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TCC Program Framework

• Affordable and sustainable housing developments 
• Residential weatherization and solar projects
• Water-energy efficiency installations
• Food waste prevention and rescue
• Urban greening projects
• Health and well-being projects
• Transit stations and facilities
• Electric buses, vanpools, car and bicycle share programs 

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TCC funds climate resilience projects from a menu of project types, including:

Single-Famly Solar & Energy Efficiency

Street Trees

Job Center

Pedestrian & Bike Lanes

Affordable Housing

Low Carbon Busses

Park

Communiity Garden & Comopost Farm

Multi-Family Solar

Transformative Elements

TCC ensures comprehensive community benefits by entrenching deep community focus in every aspect of the work.

Transformative Elements

TCC ensures comprehensive community benefits by entrenching deep community focus in every aspect of the work.

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Eligible Activities

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TCC Planning Grants

Planning Grants fund preparation work for future programs to benefit communities

Awards: Up to $300,000

Timeline:

PAC Process: approximately 3-6 months following award

Grant Term: 2 years

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Ideal for communities that need funding to begin or expand community-based planning work prior with a goal of eventually implementing climate resilience projects

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TCC Project Development Grants

Project Development Grants fund activities that advance community climate goals and prepare projects, but require additional development.

Awards: Up to $5 million

Timeline

PAC Process: approximately 3-6 months following award

Grant Term: 2 years

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Ideal for communities that have completed prior planning and identified priority projects but require additional development to advance those projects toward implementation

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TCC Awarded Projects

Chicken Ranch Rancheria

Co-Applicants: Tuolumne County Transportation Council, and Blue Zones Project�Award Amount: $217,000

Resilient Cuyama Valley

Co-Applicants: County of Santa Barbara, Blue Sky Center, The True Nature Society of Quail Springs, Community Environmental Council�Award Amount: $1,084,660.00

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TCC Implementation Grants

Implementation Grants fund neighborhood-scale applications that include multiple, coordinated projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Awards: Up to $27.5 million 

Timeline

• PAC Process: approximately 2-3 months following award
• Grant Term: 6 years
• 1-year Pre-development phase, 4-year project implementation period, 1-year performance period 

Leverage Funding: at least 50% of award � 

*exceptions for Tribal and Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities applicants

Ideal for communities that have already completed visioning, project identification, approximate budget estimates, and initial project scoping through a robust community engagement and planning process, and are ready to build

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TCC Implementation Grant Framework

Must address all 3 TCC Program Objectives and include the following components:

• Vision Statement
• Strategies
• Must include at least 3 Strategies
• Projects
• Must have at least 3 Projects
• At least 1 Project must directly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
• All Projects must either reduce GHG emissions or contribute to public health benefits
• Transformative Elements
• Program Policy Priorities

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Richmond Rising

Award Amount: $35,000,000 (Recommended); $34,413,431 (Requested)�Leverage Funding: $17,342,527

Partners: City of Richmond, 5 Co-Applicants

Projects:

• Neighborhood Complete Streets 
• Richmond Wellness Trail 
• E-Bike Lending Library 
• Resilient Homes for Healthy Communities 
• Basins of Relations 
• Bosque del Barrio 
• ADA Accessible Garden 
• Orchard for All! 
• Veggie RX 

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Transformative Plans

• Youth Fellows for Climate Justice
• Tenant screening, community land trust, ADU toolkit, façade improvement pilot
• Career Navigators at RichmondWORKS: renewable energy, electrical, project management

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TCC Round 6 Timeline

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CRC and TCC �Application Components

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Submittable

• All applications for CRC Round 2 and TCC Round 6 are required to be submitted through Submittable.
• Lead applicants will need to create a free Submittable account or sign in with Google or Facebook credentials to submit to the application.
• Link to Submittable applications and all program materials will be posted on each program's webpages. 

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Planning Grants

Application components

• Narrative Responses
• Work Plan and Budget
• Letter of Commitment from Co-Applicants / Partners
• Project Area Map

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Applicant eligibility 

• Must include at least one Co-Applicant / Partner 
• Letters of Authorization or Passed Formal Resolution authorizing the organization to apply from Lead Applicants

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TCC Only: Local Planning Consistency Letter

CRC Only: Draft Community Engagement Plan and Financial and Management Capacity Documentation

Project Development Grants (TCC Only)

Application components

• Narrative Responses
• Work Plan and Budget 
• Project Area Map
• Collaborative Governance Agreement Worksheet
• Local Planning Consistency Letter
• Financial Capacity Documents – Lead Applicant only
• Management Capacity Documents – Lead and Co-Applicants

Applicant eligibility 

• Must include at least two Co-Applicants
• Letters of Authorization or Passed Formal Resolution 

Implementation Grants

• Lead applicant is an eligible organization type
• At least 2 Co-Applicants / Partners of an eligible organization type
• Letters of Authorization or Passed Formal Resolution

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The following applicants can receive additional points, applicants that qualify for the:

• Tribal Funding Goal
• Previous SGC and LCI Grantees

Applicant Eligibility 

CRC Only: Must include a Community Based Organization as the Lead or Partner

Priority Points

CRC Only: Geographic Diversity Funding Goal and Priority Communities

TCC Only: Disadvantaged Unincorporated Community Funding Goal

Implementation Grants

Application Components 

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• Narrative Responses
• Work Plan and Budget 
• Financial Capacity Documentation 
• Management Capacity Documentation
• Collaborative Governance Agreement Worksheet 
• Project Area Map

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TCC Only: Pre-Proposal

TCC Only:

• Strategy-specific requirements
• Leverage Funding Worksheet
• Local Planning Consistency Letter
• Other threshold documentation

CRC Only:

• Prior Community Engagement Worksheet
• Draft Emergency and CRC Community Resilience Plans
• Documentation of consultation with local emergency service providers

Implementation Grants

Applicants complete and submit all required documentation during the Application Period. Only applications that meet all Application Requirements will be considered for award.

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Interviews �After application review and scoring, top-scoring applicants will be invited to a required interview. Interview scores will be combined along with written application scores to help determine final ranking.

TCC Application Period: 4 months

CRC Application Period: 2-3 months

Once awarded, Grantees must meet Pre-Development and Implementation requirements as outlined in the TCC Round 6 and CRC Round 2 Guidelines.

TCC Early Application Components

Items have a due date prior to the application due date. 

• Pre-Proposal (required)
• All potential Implementation Grant applicants must submit a Pre-Proposal.
• Due 6/30/26
• Other Climate Innovation Strategy Proposals (optional)
• Due 6/15/26
• Disadvantaged Unincorporated Community Local Data (optional)
• Due 7/31/26*
• Tribal Modification Requests (optional)
• Due 7/31/26*

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*Can be submitted by date for pre-approval, otherwise can submitted at application 

Collaborative Governance Agreement

At application, Implementation Grant & Project Development Grant applicants will submit a worksheet that addresses all of the requirements of the Collaborative Governance Agreement, including:

• Identifying roles & responsibilities
• Determining procedures for resolving disputes
• Legal & financial provisions
• Transparent processes for decision-making & community engagement + involvement

If awarded, awardees must sign and finalize the Collaborative Governance Agreement within 90 days of contract execution.

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Lead Applicants and all Co-Applicants/ Partners must jointly develop the Collaborative Governance Structure & Agreement which governs the implementation of the entire TCC or CRC grant

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Note: TCC Planning Grants do not require a formal Collaborative Governance Structure and Agreement.

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Application Technical Assistance

SGC will offer third-party Application Technical Assistance (TA) to eligible applicants for all grant types.

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TA Providers can assist in:

• Application development
• Financial analysis & budget development
• Project feasibility assessment
• Project Area identification
• GIS mapping

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To Request Application TA, please submit the Technical Assistance Request Form by 7/31/26.

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Thank You!

Key Dates for 2026

• 5/29 TCC Applications Open
• 6/30 TCC Implementation Pre-Proposals Due
• 7/2 CRC Applications Open
• 7/31 TCC & CRC TA Request Form Due
• 9/4 CRC Planning Grant Application Due
• 9/25 CRC Implementation Grant Application Due
• 9/30 TCC Planning, Project Development, and Implementation Grant Application Due

CONTACT

TCC@sgc.ca.gov

CRC@sgc.ca.gov

LEARN MORE ONLINE

sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/tcc/

sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/crc/

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